Subject: Re: bug#33915: ls / dircolors should support more than 8 colors
From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
To: Vincent Lefevre <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2018 05:20:42 -0800
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

On 29/12/18 18:10, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2018-12-30 02:21:15 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>> But one can get bright colors without bold by using 90, 91, etc.
>> This is useful with gnome-terminal.
>>
>> I think that this should be documented.
>>
>> Support for more than 16 colors could be nice...
> 
> Actually this is also a lack of documentation. After looking at
> "tput setaf ..." and "tput setab ..." output in 256-color mode,
> one can use things like:
> 
>   38;5;<foreground color number>;48;5;<background color number>
> 
Addressed with:
https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=d1de585

thanks